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Socialist Press no. 118, 27 September 1978 · scan pp. 9–10 · about 179 words

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MArlore firht law, quelling the revolutionary aftermath of war.

Instead of using the huge momentum behind these demands to fight for socialist revolution to really answer the needs of workers, social democrat and Stalinist leadersanxious to uphold the limits of bourgeois rule-welcomed them uncritically.

Pollitt in the CP pamphlet Answers to Questions in 1945 said that the victory over fascism gave "the promise of securing lasting peace, important social progress and further new development on the road to socialism"

This prospect, he said "depends for its success on the unity and strength of the labour movement and the willingness of the employers to cooperate."

Collaboration

Thirty years later, and notwithstanding their left turns in the Cold War period, the Stalinists are still advocating class collaborationist policies in campaigns against racism, in hospital joint consultative committees and in worker participation.

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← Contents of Socialist Press no. 118, 27 September 1978